French residents furious after Pete Hegseth’s bizarre D-Day speech

In Langrune-sur-Mer, villagers had prepared to honor the young men who died on their sands, not to host a speech they felt weaponized that sacrifice. Civic leaders, already uneasy with Hegseth’s past remarks, watched in disbelief as he compared wartime invasions to modern migration, framing desperate crossings as a new ideological storm battering Europe’s shores. For many, it felt like their dead were being drafted into a different war they never chose.